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assaults of determined enemy undoubtedly saved a major breakthrough from menacingthe front at this point."85The dawn soon lighted the sky and enemy grenadiers had infiltrated to right underthe Marine fighting positions, trying to take the right flank of the two companies. Marinestossed grenades just outside their holes down onto the enemy on the slope. After thisattack was beaten back, enemy poured down the ridge from the Rock. Averill, however,had made ready a standby platoon for just such an occasion. "They stood to the rear ofthe main bunker in a line of skirmishers-bayonets fixed, weapons and grenadesready-just down from the bunker, out of sight . . . Psyched-up, confidence bolsteredby the fact that the Marines had given ground, the enemy swooped over the bunkers, tobe met at point-blank range by a fusillade of grenades, small arms, and automatic-weapons fire-fire so heavy that it stopped the North Koreans, turned them, and sentthem flying back along the ridge line and into the western bunkers." Just then a supplytrain of ammo arrived "'seeming like a prayer answered,' said the Fox CompanyCommander."86One bunker was still in enemy hands. A 3.5 inch rocket team had moved toengage it at 0420, 250 yards off, but the darkness was too much and the team had towait until dawn to effectively be able to aim. As dawn crept closer, so too did the end ofthis bunker, and as soon as there was light, with MGs firing streams into theembrasures to suppress the combatants inside while the rocket team worked. The back-85 Ibid.86 Gerald P. Averill, Mustang, 274-75; Second Battalion, 5th Marines, "Historical Diary," September 1951,72-73.